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Nrrnn STATES PATENT ,FFICEP.

JOSEPH J. BISEL AND JOSEPH HANCOCK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,351, dated June 16,1896. Application filed April 4, 1896. Serial No. 586,187. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that we,JOSEPH J. BIsEL and J0- SEPH HANCOCK, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphiaand State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Clothes-Briers, of which the followin g is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to an improved clothes-drier of that class inwhich an arm'- carrying frame or bench is secured to a can riage adaptedto be elevated or lowered upon a staff.

The invention consists in certain details of construction andcombinations of parts,which will first be described in connection withthe accompanying drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation of our improvedclothes-drier, parts of the staff and operating-rope being broken out.Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the bench, detached, one of theclothes-arms being shown in operative position and another shown indotted lines in the position it occupies when not in use. Fig. 3 is abroken plan View of portions of the bench with a clothes-arm in place,showing the locking-plate in a position to permit the release of theclothes-arm, a portion of said plate being shown in dotted lines toillustrate the manner of its attachment to the bench. Fig. 4. is atransverse sectional detail View of the cam mounted in its casing.

Referring to the drawings, Aisastaff, preferably of wood, designed to beattached to the wall of a room by means of brackets B and O, which aresecured to the respective ends of the staff, as shown.

D represents a carriage, which is a hollow block, rectangular in shape,and of a size to encompass the staff A. This block is bifurcated on eachside 'at both the upper and lower ends, as at 1, to receive rollers 2,journaled on pins 3, passed through the respective branches of thebifurcations. By this construction the carriage has roller-bearing onall sides of the staff.

E represents a bench, comprising a triangular-shaped arm-holding plate 6and a supporting-rail c. Formed integral with the rear side of plate 6is a rectangular sleeve 4, designed to fit snugly around the carriage D,and to be removably secured thereto by two or more screws 5. Formed inplate e, near to and in alinement with its converging sides, are anumber of parallel slots 6, and around the outer edge of said plate isformed a narrow vertical rim 7. A pulley b is centrally mounted in plate6. The supporting-rail e is shaped to conform to the general directionof the converging sides of plate 6, and is connected to said plate byconnecting-pieces 9. This rail is of such size and so positioned thatits upper side will lie in a lower horizontal plane than plate 6 and ina vertical plane just far enough forward of the rim 7 of the plate topermit the clothes-arms when not in use to hang between the rim andrail, as shown.

F represents two locking-plates,which are each movably secured to plate6 by two pins 10, fixed in the locking-plate and passed through slots 11in plate e, their lower ends beingheaded, as shown in dotted lines inFig. 3. Each locking-plate is so positioned on plate e that its forwardedge will partially overlap the slots 6; and in this edge of thelocking-plate are formed recesses 12, which, by a proper movement of thesaid plate, are made to register with the slots 6 in plate c; but on areverse movement of the locking plate these recesses pass beyond theslots 6, thus covering the rear portions of said slots.

From the forward edge of rail (2 projects a rectangular casing G, openon one side, and having near the open side a forwardly-projecting flaredfinger 13. Opposite the open side of easing G, and projecting from raile, is an arm 14, which extends past the open side of the casing and hasits outer end flared at 15, forming, with the finger 13, a flaredentrance for the elevating-rope.

In the casing G is mounted a cam g, having a lip 16 depending from itsforward side. A portion of the cam is serrated, as at 17, but the faceof the lip portion is plain. The obj ect of the cam of this constructionis to adapt it to hold a small elevating-cord as well as a Manila rope.It is apparent that the serrated portion of the cam will effectuallyhold the ordinary rope; but if a small soft-woven cord were used thatportion of the cam would soon render the latter useless, for the reasonthat the ridges would cut into the cord. To prevent the ridges fromcontacting with a small cord, the cam is so pivoted that they will swingclear of it, when the-plain face of the lip will engage it firmly, andno compression of the cord thereby will permit the cam to revolve farenough to release the cord, as the lip will contact with arm 14:.

H is a clothes-arm, of any suitable length, and provided near one endwith an L-shaped hook 18. The arm (of which there may be any suitablenumber) is placed in position by passing its hook 18 through one of theslots 6 and moving it forward until it contacts with the front wall ofthe slot, in which position the hook rests on the plate e, and the armrests on and is supported by the rail e, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and3. Now by moving the locking-plate longitudinally its recesses 12 aremoved out of register with the slots 6, thus presenting a solid line ofmetal to the rear of the hook 18 and preventing its accidentalwithdrawal. When the arm is not desired-for use, the locking-plate ismoved until its recesses 12 again register with the slots 6, thuspermitting the hook to be removed from the slot, when it may be hungover the rim 7, the arm hanging down between the plate 6 and the rail 6,as shown in Fig. 2, whereby the arm or arms in the pendent position willbe held snugly in place.

I is an elevating-rope, one end of which is secured to the bracket B,then carried down and around pulley 8 on plate 6, and then up and arounda pulley 19, mounted in bracket B, the free end of the rope hangingdown. By this construction the operator by pulling on the rope I willelevate the carriage and its accompanying parts, and when the carriageis sufliciently elevated the free end of the rope is placed in thecasing G between the cam g and the arm 14 on the supportingrail, whenthe weight of the bench and the articles thereon will cause the same toim pinge the rope and hold it securely in the casing, thus preventingaccidental lowering of the parts.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a clothes-drier, a bench having a series of slots, in combinationwith a series of clothes-arms each provided near one end with a hook,said hooks being adapted to pass through the slots in the bench, and alockingplate overlying the rear portions of the slots and havingrecesses in its forward edge normally registering with the slots, saidplate being adapted to be moved longitudinally, whereby the recesses arethrown out of register with the slots and the arm-hooks thereby lockedin the latter.

2. In a clothes-drier, a bench comprising a slotted arm-carrying plateand an arm-supporting rail, in combination with a series ofclothes-arms, each having a hook near one end, the hooks being adaptedwhen the arms are in use to engage with the plate through the slotstherein, said plate having a vertical rim on its forward edge, and therail being so positioned with relation to the plate that the arms whennot in use may hang from the rim and be held thereon by the rail.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JOSEPH J. BISEL. JOSEPH HANCOCK. WVitnesses:

JOHN CARsoN, GEO. W. (Mason.

